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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
Chapter 12: The Three other Reasons for Popery answered briefly.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ans. 1. That is, should not Men choose a Leprosy to cure an Itch? We deny not but where Controversies show our Differences among our selves, one Party must needs be in an Error, either de re, or de nomine. But we agree in all that's necessary to Salvation and Brotherly Love: And Pride, and Envy, and Malignity, are more the Causes of our Disagreement than our Religion. Especially unskilfulness in Words and stating Cases. I have endeavoured to show in many Books (especially my End of Doctrinal Controversies, my Catholic Theology and Methodus Theologiae) that our Differences are most in Words whose sense is not mutually understood.
Ans. 1. That is, should not Men chuse a Leprosie to cure an Itch? We deny not but where Controversies shew our Differences among our selves, one Party must needs be in an Error, either de re, or de nomine. But we agree in all that's necessary to Salvation and Brotherly Love: And Pride, and Envy, and Malignity, are more the Causes of our Disagreement than our Religion. Especially unskilfulness in Words and stating Cases. I have endeavoured to shew in many Books (especially my End of Doctrinal Controversies, my Catholick Theology and Methodus Theologiae) that our Differences are most in Words whose sence is not mutually understood.
How many Loads of Controversial Volumes are written by Papists against each other? And what heavy Charges of Simony, Filthiness, Heresy, &c. have even General Councils and Historians laid on the Popes and many Councils? And note, that the Pope or Council is the Essentiating Form of the Papal Church as such; and therefore an Unholy or Debauched, or Heretic Head, proveth that the Church is Unholy or Heretical: Because the Form denominateth; and is Essential. But it is ⟨p. 52⟩not so with the Protestants, that own no Universal Head but Christ, who is Infallible and perfect.
How many Loads of Controversal Volumes are written by Papists against each other? And what heavy Charges of Simony, Filthiness, Heresie, &c. have even General Councils and Historians laid on the Popes and many Councils? And note, that the Pope or Council is the Essentiating Form of the Papal Church as such; and therefore an Unholy or Debauch'd, or Heretick Head, proveth that the Church is Unholy or Heretical: Because the Form denominateth; and is Essential. But it is